Cantata Collective, Reginald Mobley, Nicholas McGegan – J.S. Bach: Cantatas, Vol. 2 (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 58:07 minutes | 2,02 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Centaur Records, Inc.
This is Volume 2 in the anticipated complete set of Cantatas of JS Bach, performed by Cantata Collective, a period instrument vocal and instrumental ensemble based in San Francisco. Cantata Collective consists of some of the finest early music performers based in the U.S., including, for example, Nicholas McGegan.
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Reginald Mobley and Baptiste Trotignon – Because (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 55:24 minutes | 992 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Alpha Classics
During the long era when Bach, Mozart and Beethoven were creating the musical canon of Western Europe, the songs of African slaves resounded in the colonies on the other side of the Atlantic, expressing pain and longing, but also joy and the desire for freedom. The American countertenor Reginald Mobley – a rising figure in baroque music, notably under the direction of John Eliot Gardiner with whom he sings very regularly – and the French pianist Baptiste Trotignon, winner of numerous awards (Victoires du Jazz, Django d’Or) have combined their talents and sensibilities to celebrate these spirituals and the music of Black composers including Harry T. Burleigh (1866-1949) and Florence Price (1887-1953), whose beautiful transcriptions and melodies blend with Baptiste Trotignon’s subtle arrangements of the famous Sometimes I feel like a motherless child or I got a robe… The melody “Because”, composed by Florence Price on a poem by Paul Laurence Dunbar, inspired the title of the album: Because I had loved so hard (…) Because I had loved so vainly… Why this album? Because…
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